Francis Bellamy

Francis Bellamy (1726-18) was the first Naval Secretary of the United States.

Biography
Born in Pennsylvania to a Scottish-American family, Bellamy's paternal grandparents first arrived in Philadelphia after the Jacobite Uprising of 1745. Bellamy originally served as an admiral during the American Revolutionary War and became the first Secreatary of the Navy for the United States after the war's end in 1783.